Indian lawyer to demand arrest warrant against Czech client who jumped bail

The Indian lawyer of the amateur Czech entomologist Emil Kučera who jumped bail and fled the country after getting a three year jail sentence for illegal insect collecting has said he would ask for an international arrest warrant to be issued against his client. Kučera, 52, was traveling with a professional entomologist when they were arrested on charges of insect collecting in the Singalia National Park, a protected nature reserve. The two men said they had never entered the park. Švácha, a renowned scientist was released, while Kučera got three years for the same offense. He said he had escaped India, after appealing the verdict, because he did not believe he could get a fair trial in Darjeeling.